Context: I have been at my company for 3 years working on a product for our customers. It’s still in development and I work closely with UI/UX and product managers. I like the work I’m doing even though the product is not very reliable, and I haven’t seen a manager that lasts more than a year in our team because of the constantly changing requirements 😕. We are getting acquired by a private firm by the end of January and suddenly my new manager is proposing a new position to me because he wants to “shake things up a little”. Basically it’s a junior position in a team who build systems and pipelines for other engineer teams to test and deploy their product efficiently. It seems like they are building a mentorship program where they want to give a growth opportunity to someone in the company so they can practice training new people. Team is full of seniors and rarely have someone new.
My concern is the learning curve would be quite big because I have very little experience with building and maintaining such systems. My day to day tasks are building features in React/TypeScript, writing tests, and helping deploy once in a while. But this seems like a really good opportunity to grow? Would it be risky to take the offer while the company is being acquired because that means I might be a good target for potential layoffs? It’s a private equity so I’m confident they will try to cut cost to offshore jobs to other countries. However my manager is trying really hard to convince me to take it so I would feel really bad if I said no. Maybe he has other intentions I don’t know about?
Would you jump if you were me?
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r/cscareerquestions Context: I have been at my company for 3 years working on a product for our customers. It’s still in development and I work closely with UI/UX and product managers. I like the work I’m doing even though the product is not very reliable, and I haven’t seen a manager that lasts more than a year in our team because of the constantly changing requirements 😕. We are getting acquired by a private firm by the end of January and suddenly my new manager is proposing a new position to me because he wants to “shake things up a little”. Basically it’s a junior position in a team who build systems and pipelines for other engineer teams to test and deploy their product efficiently. It seems like they are building a mentorship program where they want to give a growth opportunity to someone in the company so they can practice training new people. Team is full of seniors and rarely have someone new. My concern is the learning curve would be quite big because I have very little experience with building and maintaining such systems. My day to day tasks are building features in React/TypeScript, writing tests, and helping deploy once in a while. But this seems like a really good opportunity to grow? Would it be risky to take the offer while the company is being acquired because that means I might be a good target for potential layoffs? It’s a private equity so I’m confident they will try to cut cost to offshore jobs to other countries. However my manager is trying really hard to convince me to take it so I would feel really bad if I said no. Maybe he has other intentions I don’t know about? Would you jump if you were me? submitted by /u/Oyasumiko [link] [comments]
Context: I have been at my company for 3 years working on a product for our customers. It’s still in development and I work closely with UI/UX and product managers. I like the work I’m doing even though the product is not very reliable, and I haven’t seen a manager that lasts more than a year in our team because of the constantly changing requirements 😕. We are getting acquired by a private firm by the end of January and suddenly my new manager is proposing a new position to me because he wants to “shake things up a little”. Basically it’s a junior position in a team who build systems and pipelines for other engineer teams to test and deploy their product efficiently. It seems like they are building a mentorship program where they want to give a growth opportunity to someone in the company so they can practice training new people. Team is full of seniors and rarely have someone new.
My concern is the learning curve would be quite big because I have very little experience with building and maintaining such systems. My day to day tasks are building features in React/TypeScript, writing tests, and helping deploy once in a while. But this seems like a really good opportunity to grow? Would it be risky to take the offer while the company is being acquired because that means I might be a good target for potential layoffs? It’s a private equity so I’m confident they will try to cut cost to offshore jobs to other countries. However my manager is trying really hard to convince me to take it so I would feel really bad if I said no. Maybe he has other intentions I don’t know about?
Would you jump if you were me?
submitted by /u/Oyasumiko
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